AFP
Israel averts suicide attack at Gaza crossing, Palestinian boy killed
Date: Tuesday August 31
JERUSALEM (AFP) - A Palestinian preparing to carry out a suicide bombing at the main crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip was intercepted by guards, a military spokesman said.
The thwarting of the attack at the Erez terminal in northern Gaza came just hours after a 14-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli troops in the south of the territory.
The army spokesman said border guards had first become suspicious about the would-be attacker when he presented false identity papers.
"The soldiers then noticed that he was wearing a belt of explosives and forced him to give himself up before he could set it off," the spokesman said.
On April 17 a suicide bomber blew himself up at the same place, killing one soldier and wounded two others.
Palestinian medical sources meanwhile said that a teenager was killed in the early hours by Israeli troops during an incursion into the Rafah refugee camp in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Mazem Al Agah, 14, was killed by machine-gunfire from a tank, the sources said, as armoured vehicles and two bulldozers moved into the camp near the border with Egypt under Israeli control.
A military source said an Israeli unit opened fire on a suspect observing from 50 metres (yards) a bulldozer knocking down a ruined house.
A Palestinian farmer was killed by Israeli firing late Monday near a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian sources said.
The Israeli army said soldiers had opened fire on a suspect seen climbing towards a fence at Morag settlement in the south of the Gaza Strip.
The latest deaths brought to 4,252 the number of people killed since the start of the Palestinian intifada or uprising in September 2000, including 3,254 Palestinians and 927 Israelis.
In the West Bank, army sources said they had arrrested 38 wanted Palestinians, including 24 in the southern Hebron region, seven in Bethlehem and seven in the town of Abu Dis on the outskirts of east Jerusalem.
In addition, an Israeli army unit composed of around 30 jeeps and tanks, with aerial cover from combat helicopters, staged an incursion into the northern West Bank town of Jenin and its neighbouring refugee camp, an AFP correspondent witnessed.
The soldiers imposed a curfew as they combed through the town at dawn. Three members of the radical Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades escaped an assassination attempt on Monday in Jenin when an Israeli helicopter missile missed their car and slammed into a nearby house.
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